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The Puritans. 

1620. 

From priestly intolerance over tlie sea 
The Puritan lathers determined to flee; 
And manfully breasted the waves of the ocean, 
Preferring e'en perils to life-long commotion. 
Now braving rough breakers on waters untried, 
Now fighting with savages, whom they defied ; 
Fully determined oppression to shun, 
And conqiier the object for which they begun. 
They struggled with obstacles, destiny, fate. 
To govern the country, and build up the State. 
The child grew quickly to act like a sage, 
And learned in his boyhood the lessons of age. 
And skilled in the arts pertaining to peace, 
"When ttither declined, the ^n took his place. 
The path of the pilgrim beset and harrassed. 
Was shaded with .sorrow wherever he passed. 
And murderous savages — barbarous — wild, 
Threatened the lather, the mother and child; 
And sorrow still lacking to fill their cup full. 
Was freely supplied ])y old Johnnie Bull. 
The people grew sullen and P>rittains so grufi', 
That war Avas the (lonsequence — war sure enough- 
The Tories and Hessians all fought with a will. 
Till badly defeated at proud Bunker Hill : 
In subsequent battles they acted less brave, 
And fied i'rom the Yankees, their bacons to save. 
Victory perching at last on our banners, 
Taught the intruders a lesson in manners, 
lint the demon of shivery haunted the land. 
Creating disturbance on every hand ; and 
Threatened at length the life of the nation, 
Breeding corruption and low degredation, 



Till the war tocsin sounded a thousand alavnis, 

Calling American brothers to arms. 

At Sumpter the booming of cannon was heard, 

And quickly the soul of the nation was stirred, 

Till brother to brother and father to son, 

Presented a bayonet, sabre or gun. 

The bloodiest battles continued for years 

Filling the country with mourning and tears. 

The Rebels, at length, convinced of their lollj'. 

Footsore and weary, fired their last volley : 

Slavery dead, and the nation reclaimed. 

The cradle of liberty proudly remained. 

And serf-ridden governments, over the sea, 

Stood blessing America, happy and free ; 

And soldiers and citizens joined to prolong 

The sound of the singing and joy of the song ; 

While millions of freemen united to say, 

" Thrice happy our country," the voice of their lay, 

" The land of the free and the home of the brave, 

'Neath the folds of her banner there breathes not a slave ; 




And Li)»erty's goddess stands over the graves 

Of soldiers and sailors, and proudly she waves 

The star spangled banner in triumph o'erhead, 

To honor the names of our patriot dead : 

And long may it wave on the laud and the sea. 

The flag of a countrj' united and free. 

I'roud flag of our countrv. long, lon<i' mav il wave 



O'er the jidiuc of flic live. r-iT NKVKK THE SLAVIC 

And the new se\ eiitv-six in the drama oJ' time, 

Hand down to the aftes a record .snlilime. 

And the millions that people ('ohiml)ia's shore. 

Unite in ])roud anthems of piai.se to adore 

The ijrandeur and strensitli of a nation that's free, 

Whose ensign the emltlem of treedom shall be."' 

1883. 

"It was a lilorious happy day," 

The patriot fathers used to .say, 

" When Coltimhia prudently 

Ruled with righteous dignitj' ; 

Her banner from the mast or tree 

Floated o'er tlie hind and sea. 

And on eaeh fair and ample fold 

These words were traced as if in gold : 

" All laws mu.st be for equity, 

Administered in purity." 

By statesmen all the laws were framed, 

Nor^as corruption ever named. 

IMan was neighltor, friend and brother. 

And tliis one strove to help the other. 

To conquer in the busy .strife, 

The cryint!; ills of human life. 

The ship of state ran safely, guided 

By honest hand, and chart provided ; 

Nor wrecks were seen along the strand, 

Which stretched away on either hand : 

Their captain schooled to perfect skill. 

Had learned his chart— the people's will — 

Not so in these our later times ; 

When men are honored for their crimes. 

The venal crew who legislate, 

Apostate are — degenerate. 

The story must 1)e told with shame, 

How these for pay, and those for fame. 

Have ])artered human rights .so ))old. 

And sold the people out for gold. 

H Mas a base and w icked crime, 

Effects of which may last, through time. 

The iieople's choice to immolate. 



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Selecting ghouls to rule to State. 
We sing again, oh! sad refrain, 
And tears shoiihl flow like falling rain. 
The people were like cattle sold, 
For " silver threads among the gold." 
Unlike Lycurgns, good and true, 
A patriot ever, through and through, 
"Who served his country and her cause 
By teaching virtue and just laws ; 
For freedom's sake engaged in strife. 
And for the same surrendered life ; 
Attaining thus the lofty station, • 

Of saviour to his home and nation. 
These venal men who worship self, 
Sell all their votes for gold and i)elf. 




Wu are Idolaters. 
They V>ow to wealth, virtue berate, 
And trade the choicest gifts of State, 
As auctioneers the world around 
Sell paltry toys wherever found. 
Cheap hucksters they in wretched plight, 
Forgetful ])oth of truth and right ; 
In imitation of the clown, 
Devoid of greatness or renown. 
"Whisky drinking chicfest i-loasure, 
illiey revel in Ihcir slolen treasure, 
Fjuch follow meekly — wealth directs, 
r>ach thankful lor the pay he gets, 
('nuld Washington liom Heaven return. 
With scorn his patriot soul would burn ; 
One .so nnust'd to sights iniimrc, 




Xevcn- eould the slinck endure. 

A\}(\ Jefferson, wliose Avisdoni /ranied 

The Constitution and orcUiined 

A <i'o\ernu\ent so free lor all, 

How eouhl he view the thieves so small, 

And keep within the pale of reason — 

They eonteni])latin,<i' wholesale treason — 

The elass of men (?) who legislate, 

Make such a fearf,,l wreck of State? 

(Jid iliekf>rv, too. eould he draw near. 

And learn the ])1ans and ]ilottint';s (|iieer, 

Of politicians in our day 

What \\ould the hero think and say? 

Thinj:;s are so changed and in a mix. 

('om])ared with times of seventy-six ; 

His hitter words like )ieltiim' hail, 

Melhinks would pnhlic sin assail. 

Until the people, sick of faction, 



Should rouse themselves to timely action 
Against the caucus — nest of crimes, 
Run by the schemers of the times, 
Till politicians, quite outdone, 
Slionlu take the hint — get uj) and ran, 




And money kinjis in mcjiner plight 
Should flee before the p(aph''s might. 
And Henry Clisy, wlio sits above 
'Mid scenes of purity and love. 
Could he hiolc downwai'd from the skies. 
What dreadful sights would grc-t his eyes. 
Our sons and daughters, what disgracv:- 
Tjie phogeny of Saxon rack — 
Driven out of place and out of home, 
.•\nd then compelled as tramps to roam, 
At beck of Shylock — base pretendei- — 
The ancient cruel money lender; 
Because in truth his purchased laws 
Have undermined the people's la\\s. 
Abe Lincoln, too, the sainted martyr. 
Could he behold men trade and V)ar1er 
The ohices and gifts oi' State, 
He would indeed the thieves berate. 
And raise his voice for prompt reliel' 
To all the millions bowed with grief: 
A!id then with sorrow sjieak again, 
R<'))eatiug o\r in sad ivfrain, 



Till' TRT'Tii thai many hero's tried 
To liee llie land, ))ut fell and died; 
Who never, wliile in bloody striie, 
To save Die nation's sacred life, 
Had .seen the end Avith cviIk IVanjilit, 
Nor grasped the all important thought, 
That with the ireedom to the slave, 
Our COtTNTRY TO THK RICH WE (lAVK 

With all the blessings of the land, 
lieaching out on every hand, 
And all tlie hidden wealth untold. 
Of silver ore jis well as gold. 
And after telling other things. 
Would turn his talk to money kings. 
" Bonanza kings, ye rich and great, 
Who long have managed things of state; 
How can you longer take th^ blame 
Of giving freedom but in name 
To all the millions — toiling masses — 
Who bow- to you and cringe like asses. 
Soon men will write of all of you. 
That ye are but a thieving crew. 
.1 moment pause I and lend an ear 
To all the mutterings — railings queer^ 
< )f voters who have taken fright, 
J>y reason of your lordly plight ; 
Because, in truth, they understand 
The very laws which ye demand: 
King-s must make of two or three. 
And fi'om serfdom brave men flee." 
That men are free, " of right should be," 
Does scarcely with the times agree; 
'Tis now "the coat of model sliape," 
Not rkal worth "the man must make 
For see, 'tis known throughout the land. 
And heralded on every hand. 
Get all the gold by stealth you can ; 
Oct gold by good or evil plan. 
"Ill fares the land," the bard has said, 
And all men feel the trutli with dread, 
"To hast«»ning ills an easy prey. 
When riches grow and men decay." 



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Alas! how sadly true of lute — 
vSee Colorado's awful fate — 
That wealth alone, not statesmanship 
The State can rule with hellish gi-ip ; 
Monopolies their laws enforce, 
And every year keep getting worse ; 
While virtue lags to rear of xitn, 
And 8atan gets the hindmost man. 



Picture of Life. 



How .strange is the picture pi-fsentcd — how i-ife 
With traces of sorrow to millions in life; 
Whom, lest they get money by fraud or by luck, 
Their lives present simply a ki'sti.e fok ihimjk. 
Lecturers tell us to trust for the bread, 
Which Shylock is holding just over our head ; 
Some tell it in earnest, repeat it in tears, 
While others, base cowards, have doubted for yeai-s. 
We gladly would take it as wholesome advic-e, 
P>ut strongly it savoi-s of Shylock's device. 
While pastors and people his methoils defend. 
He, trebblinghis income, has money to lend. 
Could all the world see in this picture presented. 
The FATLrui'] <»f I.I^•ES therein represented. 
Not ]n'eachers, no lawyers, aj)ostles pretended. 
Could flatter them Asses and keep them contented. 
The ol)ject and end, our country's grand mi.ssion. 
W^e never shall see (I speak with contrition) 
'Till all of the millions who labor for bread. 
Discarding lalse teachei-s, with sense in their head. 
To thought and new effort, their lives all devote, 
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Jottings from the Spirit World. 

S. H. BiuDSALL., Medium p?-o tern. 
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Last night, while sleeping sound in bed, 

A spirit rapped so near my head. 

It roused me out of sleep profound ; 

And then I listened to the sound. 

It rapped, and tapped, and rapped again. 

Until I spelled " Brick " Pomeroy's name. 

■' You've lived in Denver," said my guest, 

"And known the .sage of the Great West." 

" I have indeed, said I in fear, 

But' what the deuce has brought you hei-e? " 

'■ I've come to tell you news I think 

Of Pomeroy's passage o'er the Drink." 

" I fear you're joking, " then I said. 

He answerd, " Nay, poor ' Brick ' is dead. 

Business troubles played him out — 

Though people said he had the gout." 

" You'd scarcely think," again qouth he, 

" That his own spirit speaks with thee." 

" But all the' same," said he, the elf, 

" I'm Pomeroy's spirit, I myself." 

And then he told me o'er and o'er, 

His business failures by the score. 

Here, briefly then, is what he[]said. 

In loud, clear raps, close to my head : 

"For twenty years, or less, or more, 

When you were dressed in pinafore, 

I made a living — what a sell — 

Repeating jokes just made to tell. 

Old musty things, I told them o'er, 

Just as, yon see, I'd done before 

Ten thousand times, in days of yore, 

From out the stock I held in store. 

When came the war, for a quite a time 



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I played it double — played it fine— 

With'power from officers of State 

To raise one regiment or eight, 

I spent my time now doing that, 

Then editing the Democeat — 

Its pages filled with Rebel cant — 

Eclipsing everthing blatant. 

(I made it peppery, understand,) 

And sent it thus throughout the land 

Where the cotton thrives in breezes bland. 

This two-faced business I allowed 

Would bring me money from the crowd; 

And so it did without a doubt, 

' Till Union soldiers found me out. 

They threatened death to the deceiver; 

Would throw my press into the river ; 

And thus almost before I knew it, 

There plans were fixed to make me rue it. 

Thence to New York my stej^s I wended. 

And fierce with Tammany contended 

For a share of spoils, and made demand 

Foi- thirty thousand paid in hand ; 

With this — to me a very " bar'l " — 

I got into a partj' snarl, 

And here I'll tell you in my ditty 

Of failures at Chicago city ; 

Then how I busted at La Crosse, 

And how I failed as party Boss ; 

Then with my partner after that 

I fought till business tumbled flat. 

When caught in such a dreadful plight, 

I sought for refuge in far flight, 

And traveled westward day and night 

Until I came to far ofl" Denver, 

Where first they called me "arch pretender." 

The lectui-e field then next I entered. 

And all my energy I centered 

To tell my plans — the same defining — 

For getting rich at '' paper mining." 

I traveled over vale and mountain. 

Dispensing "gas" as from a fountain ; 

But for my folly thus bestowing, 



A pittance was my only showing. , 

And here again how hard I tried, 

But business failures multiplied. 

I purchased holes made in the ground. 

And spread ten thousand lies around 

About the riches I had found. 

I started scores of enterprises, 

To see them end as hugh disguises. 

For years I tried and tried again 

To raise the wind, but tried in vain ; 

All enterprises went the same, 

Leaving nothing but a name. 

My name I loaned, to every i>lan 

Proposed by company or man, 

For gaining rich bonanza prizes, 

By means of sundry new devices. 

Sometimes I piled it on too thick 

And made my verdant patrons sick ; 

As all who on my word relied. 

Were disappointed and they sighed. 

I gave protection — by my word — 

To workingmen — the con\mon herd — 

Their earnings held, and did it well. 

And now 'tis hard to hear them tell 

That I had given to my wife 

Their ca.sh, and thus stir up a strife : 

And then again, to hear them say, 

That she had .stored it all away 

For usefulness some rainy day : 

Or, she had huilded mansions great, 

The finest found within the State, 

And just because we lived in fa.shion, 

The ill-bred crew flew in a passion 

And threatened me with hempen rope, 

At sight of which I lost all hope. 

.Just then I tunneled through a mountain. 

A passage way for train or fountain ; 

I made the great Atlantic tunnel 

And ran it straight (?) as any funnel. 

This proved to me a very strike 

Nor human ever saw the like; 

By thousands daily came the gold, 



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Nor yet can half the truth be told ; 
Thousands of stock were sold — let's see ! 
Two hundred thousand, or else three ; 
And, but that Hugo played the deuce, 
The cash had been to me of use. 
Alas ! for me, that business craze 
Fired my brain into a blaze. 
Oh, Hugo! Hugo! how in time 
Can you atone for all your crime ? 
I had faint hope until that day, 
Could I have had my own sweet way, 
That I could buy a place and station, 
As senator \Yithin the nation.. 
Alas! too much to luck I've trusted, 
And find at last my hope is busted. 




A POLITICAL HUCKSTER. 
As an expert at turning my coat now and then, 
Old partners commended me over all men, 
A self-chosen leader and full of vain pranks, 
I never would march to a tune in the ranks; 
A Bourbon I was at one time you see, 
Wlien it fattened me most a Bourbon to be; 
Tlien raving around like a country bushwhacker, 
I, turning about, became a Greanbackor. 
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1 \()ti(l lifjmbliraii, true as you're liviii^i: 
Thivt ticket I voted lor ))iincii)le, surel_\ , 
Then quickly came out as a nionfirclito purely. 
Attcniptinu; one other dei)arture, dear nie ! 
Has branded nie jdainly, as all men can see. 
Political Huckster, the worst of my class, 
And meanest a])pearinfi a iilayed out jackass. 




'Political Huckster!' I'll carry the brand 
To the verj' la.st day I shall live in the land : 
A Bourbon I started way back in the i)ast, 
And a. cringing old P.ourbon I'll die at the last." 

I KLAIMEI) POOR HCGO. 
" Last yejir when'er I voted crooked 
I blamed poor Hugo, and he took it : 
Thus getting l)<)ld I tried tlie .same, 
(You understand, I tried the game) 
Of laying business blame on Preyer. 
In this I tailed of my desire. 
For Hugo, still on mischief bent, 
And burning with his foul intent. 
Threw my fat into the tire, 
P>y (tailing mo a willful liar. 
I railed at Hugo, slandered him, 
-Vnd said his name was synonym 
I'or all the evils hoiu of sin : 



Said he had ruined ' Moiite stock,' 

Whicli tumbled with tremeodous shook — 

Bhimed hiin lor the lall of ' Standard,' 

And cruelly his name I slandered, 

For selling ' Buckeye ' stock too low. 

And thus on him all blame did throw. 

His every act of covert fraud, 

I spread it quickly all abroad ; / 

I even said he was a knave. 

And thus I tried myself to save, 

When ruin faced me everywhere ; 

It turned my brain, I do declare ! 

Til us when I lost my grip and name 

Here to the spirit land I came. 

My character — so people wrote — 

I murdered first, then cut my throat ; " 

Said I, " Now, ' Brick,' just tell your mind. 

Since all the .scenes you've been behind. 

And let me know what you have found. 

While you the spirit world around 

Have traversed in your fcri%l flights. 

Whether good or evil sights, 

Whether ghosts or angels bright, * 

There, brought you dread or pure delight. 

I asked him what He thought to-day 

Of others who had passed away, 

And left no record prose or rhyme 

To show how spirits spend Iheir time." • 

"Alas ! " said he, " 'tis here as there, 

The spirits shun me everywhei-e. 

I called, one day, to say regards 

To Satan and his duskj' pards ; 

But found the doors all clo.st'd with bars, 

And to myself I said : ' my s tars ! 

Will Devils shun me like the rest? 

Where out of hell shall I be blest! ' 

Just then old Nick stuck out his head, 

And in his liice I quickly read 

The stem rebuke, which came too soon. 

As well as my impending doom ; 

I prayed, ' O, Nick ! do let me in? ' 

He smiling answered: 'That's too thin. 



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But to be i)lain, you're such a leech. 
Too long I've .sheltered .such a.s thee, 







Go quickly, go, I bid, you, flee ! 
I fear you'd ruin all my legion.s. 
Should I admit yon in my region.s ; 
Besides, you see, it wouldn't pay. 
For bu.sine.s.s chance.s day by day 
Are growing less. Take my advice, 
Be off, vou sinner, in a trice.' " 



THE DEVIL'S APOLOGY. 

" Here scores of good fellows, lawyers and judges. 
Sit down at their ease and laugh between nudges, 
To think of the farmers and miners — the geese — 
Whose plethoric; pockets, whenever they plea.se. 
Year after year by their wits they ci?n fleece. 
Then following doctors come .some who can preach, 
Each one in his calling — forgive me — a leecli. 
Tiien on come a motley crowd — tramps by the score 
-Vll skilled in the leeching, like those on before: 



Bankers and merchants, beer venders ahead, 

All looking for pelf, and each trying to lead, 

And when the whole force of them here represented. 

Are fed by my people until they're contented. 

What's left for the scribbler, what think ye, old pard V 

Except a lean bone or a crust that is hard." 

BUT, TO MY STOKY AGAIN. 

'■ When Satan saw my bitter grief, 

As if to offer slight relief. 

He said : ' Why not Saint Peter try ? ' 

The wicked elf, what hope had I, 

Since for a place in Hell I'd striven. 

How could I take, e'en though 'twere given. 

The darkest corner up in Heaven? 

Of the whole truth this is the gist — 

I've l)een T)oth rogue and egotist ; 

And now, alas, 'tis late relenting. 

But duty calls for this repenting. 

I've slandered good men all my life. 

And sought delight in making strife ; 

I'm justly called a ba.se deceiver, 

Because I've lied on Jimmy Weaver. 

And now a message I will send. 

In some degree to make amend 

P'or all the baneful, cruel loss 

My deeds have cost the Greenback cause. 

I'll try at least to seem sincere, 

And HUMBT'G thus the spirits here; 

Just as I used to .do down there. 

When spreading falsehoods everywhere. 

Here is the message full and true, 

And 'tis the last from me to you." 

THE SPIRIT MESSAGE. 

A Complimcni to Wcncrr. 

A Weaver's beam is in the air. 
Look out 'twill tall most anywhere, 
The wielder deems it best. 
The heads he hits will surely ache. 
The hearts he's won for freedom's sake, 
Will si)read the light till all partake 



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Of c<iiial laws and — rest, 

Rest from the pillage of the lew, 

Rest from the laws a thieving crew 

Have fastened on to us. 

Rest from the scourge of money kings. 

Rest from incorporated thugs and kings. 

Rest from the ills of all those things 

Which now oppress us. 

And last tl»e sage and sainted Martyr, 

Read what the press said of the matter. 

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 
One said old " Brick " had heen a sinner, 
Another, the world will he the winnei-, 
A third declared Pomeroy has busted, 
A fourth ; he never could he trusted. 
Pomeroy pays nor cares a sniff 
At hand of whom, though he be sheriff, 
It matters not for time or manner, 
" Brick " always paj's, so reads his banner. 

MY RAILROAD SCHEME. 
A railroad up the rugged height, 
UpwaBd, upwai-d, out of sight 
I built to reach my A.-P. tunnel, 
Its course as straight as any gunwale 
I laid my plans, and, quick as thought. 
The work o'er rugged steeps was wrought. 
The scheme is new and may seem queer, 
And possibly some fools may sneer. 
Because in truth 'tis quite too soon 
To build a railroad to the moon ; 
But I am bound, with skillful hand 
To build to moon or spirit land. 



The Spread Eagle. 



Unlike the grey eagle, proud king of the sky, 
"With storm-daring pinion and sun-gazing eye. 
High mounts tlie dead monster, Pomeroy the composer. 
Most brilliant in thought, but a crafty bull-dozer 
From soaring aloft at the dizziest hight. 
He strangely descends to the meanest plight. 
Berating good measures, as all men well know. 
In conduct he likens the carrion crow, 
With tallons so monstrous, his pen for a bill, 
He floats on huge pinions at wild fancy's will. 
And perches alott on some vast mountain peak, 
From whence dowuAvard gazing for prey he doth seek ; 
Thence earthward he plunges to less dizzy height, 
Till some putrid carcass appears to his sight, 
And from its worst filth he there takes a bite. 
And every foul stench his pen thus discloses. 
His paper thrust under a half dozen noses. 
And now an old story just here I'll relate. 
From which a good lesson Old Brick Dust may t:\ke. 
A clumsy old animal, once on a time, 
(It's told as a fable, not given in rhyme,) 
In lion skin frightful, manouvered so bold ; 
Thousands were frightened, both the young and the old. 
In broad, open lane or busiest street, 
Fear fell upon all he there chanced to meet. 
Thus wildly he capered for many long years. 
Till careless at last he showed his huge ears. 
Then all of the timid ones, ten times a score, 
Got after the fraud with multitudes more. 
The people all beat him with clubs, rocks and sticks, 
And made him a target for ten thousand bricks ; 
Flayed the skin from his back, cut off his lop ear.s. 
And crippled the monster for months and for years. 
Of all shabby creatures, he worst of his class. 



The meanest appeared — a played out jackass. 
Thus " Brick" as a writer oh<>;M never to be 
A donkey concealed, as all men can see, 
A high moral motive he ever should have, 
And erring ones ever he trying to save. 



Slaves Are They! 



" Slaves are they who dare not be 
In the right with two or three." 

Slaves aie they unfit to live 
"Who dare not choose in life to give 
The choicest work of head and hand 
To farther freedom in the land. 

Slaves are thej'^ who shout and sing 
The praises of some party ring. 

Slaves are they to gi-eatness lost 
Who cling to wrong at country's cost. 

Slaves are they, tit but to die, 
Who day by day work on the sly, 
To help vile rogues and party bosses, 
Mo matter what the nation's losses. 



A MAN'S A MAN FOR A' THAT. 



How often the casket of daintiest plan 
Contains neither gizzard nor soul of a man. 
When elected to places of honor and trust, 
Such show in their make-up nothing but dust. 
Of dignified bearing they show quite enough, 
While lacking all manlier, sturdier stuff. 
The scratch of their pen coats a five or a ten, 
But when it comes theirs to pay, how is it then ? 
O Mores, tempores, O, customs and times, 
What other mean words shall I use in my rhymes 
To express my abhorrence, contempt and disdain. 
For creatures of fashion, the.se things they call men. 



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Labor Song. 

Tune, Marching Along. 



Workmen are gatlie'ring from near and afar, 
Sliylock lias sounded the call for a war, 
Thousands of bankers, a unit their cause, 
By " Pooling their issues" are making our laws. 

CHORUS, 

Marching along, we are marching along. 

For truth and the right we are marching along, 

" The banks they must go " be our watchward and soing. 

For truth and the right we are marching along. 

Old parties respond to the last vile request 

Tlie echo resounds through the f'ast and the West, 

" The Greenback must go" is the cry loiul and strong — 

Sherman gave the key-note and Hayes sang the song. 

"The banks they must go" with thier liv'ry and bonds- 
When workmen arise bearing banners with songs ; 
They shall rise in their might, rise an army millions strong 
For truth and the right they'll be marching along. 

When gold coin and Shylock in fright fled away 
The greenback stood by us in war's darkest day ; 
It paid off the soldier his every demand, 
And surely deserves now a place in the land. 



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